Safety-case for lanterns.



PATENTED OCT. 11, 1904.

H. P. BURGHFIELD. SAFETY CASE FOR LANTERNS.

.APPLIOATION FILED JULY ll.1904..

N0 MODEL.

.ywaim Patented October 11, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

HOLLIS F. BUROHFIELD, OF GUILFORD, ILLINOIS.

SAFETY-CASE FO R LANTERNS- SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Paten No. 772,085, dated October 11, 1904. Application filed July 11, 1904- Serial No. 216,086- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HOLLIS F. BUROHFIELD, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Guilford, in the county of Winnebago and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Safety- Oases for Lanterns, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a case to contain a lantern while in use in barns and other buildings where there is danger of fires being set by overturning the same. Its further object is to provide a means for warming sleighs and other vehicles in winter by setting a lantern in the case therein under the lap-robes thereof.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, Figure 1 is an isometrical detail view of a safetycase embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a central vertical section of the same.

Like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts throughout both views.

A is the body portion of my invention, which is preferably cylindrical inform and is closed at its lower end by means of a bottom B, fast thereto, and has a fenestral opening O in the side thereof, protected by means of curved fender-bars secured thereover, and has acarrying-bail E, pivoted to ears F, fast to the part A, and is provided with a cover G, having a layer of asbestos H on the upper side thereof. I

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A safety-case for lanterns, comprising a cylindrical body portion A-closed at the lower end by means of a bottom Bhaving a fenestral opening O, in the side thereof, protected 

